US Tariffs And Manufacturing Concentration: Double-Edged Sword?

India and the US are the major manufacturers of finished dosages for the US market in terms of volume (China accounts for 9% of injectables), though the US relies heavily on India for solid oral dosage forms and specific generics, including lenalidomide and albuterol. Scrip talks to experts on some of the key implications of geographic concentration of production for the US market amid the specter of tariffs.

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Manufacturing concentration and the tariff option

US President Donald Trump’s ever-evolving stance on tariffs may be rattling the world and also has pharma on tenterhooks, but going down that path for generic medicines may be a doubled-edged sword or even counterproductive, at least in the short term.

While pharmaceuticals were exempted in Trump’s initial reciprocal tariff salvo, his subsequent warning speaking to reporters on Air Force One that pharma could see tariffs at levels “never seen before” suggests that industry is still in unpredictable terrain

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